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THE MASSES

by Professor Revilo P. Oliver (Liberty Bell, September 1988)



"A PAMPHLET that reprints an article that appeared in the American Atheist in May 1982, records a political phenomenon, typical of our languishing nation, which may be little known today and certainly deserves attention.

The article is unfortunately so organized that judicious readers who
are pressed for time are likely to discard it after reading the first
five or six of the twenty-nine pages. It begins with the text of a
petition to the Federal Communications Comission submitted by two men
(race unstated) who evidently wanted to peddle some noxious
superstition they thought was non-Christian but was probably just
another Christian heresy (1), and were envious of the virtual monopoly
of radio broadcasting enjoyed by the more orthodox Christian
dervishes. They accordingly put together a plausible and well-reasoned
argument for a limitation of "religious broadcasting" to prevent the
Christians from having a total monopoly in some areas. They obviously
wanted to make room for the competing buncombe they intended to
promote.



(1. As I have often remarked, over the past fifteen centuries the
mentality of our race was so infected and permeated by the spiritual
poison of Christianity that the superstition has left a deadly residue
in many minds that imagine they have freed themselves from it. Many
ostentatiously anti-Christian religions, such as Marxism, are really
merely reformed cults that retain the essentials of the religion they
reject. For example, whenever you hear bleating about 'minorities' or
squawks about 'racism,' you may be sure that they come from either
Christians or persons whose minds are unwittingly controlled by a
residue of Christian faith. Ironically but obviously, this includes
many professed atheists. Of course, there are also Communist agents
who are cynically availing themselves of a convenient disguise to
promote the substance of Christianity while seeming to oppose it.)




The petition is worse than trash, however. Its authors brazenly allege
that the Christian radio stations promulgate "a comfortable, blond,
Aryan view of Godhead." It is impossible to determine whether the two
men, obviously of some eminently dispensable racial stock and said to
have been young, were so stupid as to believe what they said or were
so dishonest as to make the allegation to enlist support in a
government which is surreptitiously working to liquidate the Aryans in
this country, believing them to be an obstacle to realization of the
great American dream of making the land between the Atlantic and the
Pacific a fetid jungle, infested by half a billion or a billion of
diseased and mindless mongrels, who will live as happily as did the
rats in old Hamelin. (2)





(2. It is a discouraging but significant fact that many
individuals who believe the tales in the Jew-Book to be records of
actual happenings disbelieve the story of the rats that overran
Hamelin and the coming of the Pied Piper, dismissing it as a folk-
tale, although it is certainly as plausible and credible as the
stories they believe. The reason for this discrepancy, of course, is
that no set of witch-doctors have thought it profitable to promote the
morally superior legend about the city in Saxony.)




At that point (p.5), the pamphlet will go into many waste-paper
baskets, as it would have gone into mine, had it not been sent me by a
friend in whose judgement I have great confidence.

It is not until one reaches page 14 that the purpose of the long and
misleading introduction becomes apparent. The quoted petition, filed
in December 1974, seems to have been the origin of a canard that Mrs.
Madalyn O'Hair had presented a petition with 27,000 signatures
demanding the prohibition of religious broadcasting.

Now, to be scrupulously fair, we must concede that, first, this is
what Mrs. O'Hair might have done, if she had had so numerous a
following in 1974, and, second, that such a petition would have been
entirely reasonable and proper, although it had implications that
would have excluded all huckstering from radio broadcasts -- which
would have been a boon in itself. Therefore, since professional soul-
savers have less regard for facts than do high-powered salesmen of
fraudulent securities and "great investment opportunities," it is
entirely possible that some of the holy men who began a frantic
agitation did actually believe that Mrs. O'Hair had presented such a
petition. They, by professional habit that has become an automatic
reflex, sound off whenever an opening presents itself. (3) But
granting that the agitation may have been begun with only a
professional disinterest in truth, we may be certain that most of the
saintly rabble-rousers who carried it on in subsequent years were
cynically exploiting an opportunity to show the world how many biped
sheep they had in the flocks they were constantly shearing.



(3. I witnessed an amusing instance of such automatic reaction in
my youth, when I attended a party given by a man whose father, a quite
well-known minister in a distant state, was paying him an unexpected
visit. The host used a very reliable bootlegger and the party became
cheerful. I do not remember whether the old man joined in the
alcoholic sinning, but he dozed off in his chair and slept for some
time. Awakening and hearing some words in the discussion in progress,
he leapt up and began to orate about "social justice" and Jesus,
speaking, as was evidently his habit in the pulpit, with his eyes as
closed as his mind. He ranted for two or three minutes before he
opened his eyes, lowered them from the ceiling, and saw where he was.)




What followed will, I think, amaze, and, I hope, impress most of my
readers. Within six months, the Federal Communications Commission
received 750,000 letters demanding that the Commission reject the
petition Mrs. O'Hair had not submitted. This is said to have been so
much more mail than the Commission had ever before received about any
issue that it was naturally overwhelmed. But that was merely the
beginning of the uproar that was orchestrated by virtually all the
fakirs in the highly lucrative Jesus-business. Every con man who was
fleecing suckers by scaring them with Jewish ghost-stories saw a
wonderful opportunity to promote his racket and consolidate his power
as shepherd of the flock he set to bleating.

The result, described in detail in the pamphlet, should send cold
shivers down your back. Despite attempts by the Commission to explain
that it had never received a petition from Mrs. O'Hair and had
rejected the one submitted by the young men who wanted to peddle their
own brand of hokum, the boobs were kept agog for eight or more years,
during which they wasted enormous amounts of ink, paper, postage
stamps, and the time of the employees the Commission had to hire to
open the letters and answer the continually ringing telephones.

The racketeers improved their lies. One holy man solemnly swore that
Mrs. O'Hair had submitted such a petition. The medicine-men never
hesitate at perjury: old Yahweh, if he exists, certainly loves liars
and swindlers: he made a race of them his Chosen. Others propagated
the story that Mrs. O'Hair had [herself!] introduced a bill in
Congress to "outlaw religious broadcasting." The jackasses composing
the Senate of the State of Illinois passed a resolution condemning
Mrs. O'Hair for the petition she had never submitted. (4) Politicians,
like fakirs, live by bamboozling boobs, so quite a few of them sounded
their fog horns to obtund the ears of their victims, especially after
their offices were jammed with letters from half-wits who can vote.



(4. Such phenomena, normal in a "democracy," are not confined to
the United States. In the 1920s the Camelots du Roi in France enjoyed
sporting with the ignorance of a score or more of the "democratic"
pickpockets who had been elected to that nation's Chambre des Députés.
Approached by supposed "leftists," the sapient legislators signed and
published a resolution that condemned the United States for denying
civil rights to the inhabitants of Nicaragua, the only one of the
eighteen states of the Union that was denied equality with the rest.)




By May 1978, the Commission was receiving 13,000 letters a day, and
the total had reached 6,500,000. No one ever estimated the amount of
waste paper sent to members of Congress, but there must have been a
comparable quantity of it. Some statistician computed that cost of
postage stamps alone, when the postage was less than half the present
rate, was $1,650,000.

The howling dervishes were delighted with the din they were making and
especially with the demonstration of their power over the vast herds
of cattle that were bellowing at their command. Women's Clubs plied
their pens. Moppets in the schools were set to writing, or signing,
letters about something they could not understand. By 1980, envelopes
containing such dirty paper were delivered to the Commission at the
rate of a hundred thousand each week, and five employees were needed
for the task of opening letters on the illusory subject, while eight
were needed to answer telephone calls about it.

By the time the article was sent to press in May 1982, the Commission
had received 13,000,000 letters, and some of them, counted as single
letters, were petitions bearing as many as 30,000 signatures. Many of
the letters and signatures were, of course, forgeries, as is normal in
godly work. (5) It is reasonable to suppose that another twelve or
thirteen million letters were divided among the members of Congress.



(5. I remember that more than thirty years ago I was consulted by
a lady -- I never use that word as merely an euphemism for 'woman' --
the wife of a prosperous farmer, who had been enlisted by the
promoters of a great "Christian Conservative" movement. She discovered
that she was to serve as a member of a band of patriotically pious
women who were forging signatures to electoral petitions, and were
using a fairly clever technique for making them seem authentic at
first glance. The lady, more honest than most of her politically
active sex, was perplexed. She was told "that's the way one has to do
things in a 'democracy.'" That was true enough, but did not satisfy
her, for reasons which ladies can understand but will mystify gynaecic
do-gooders. It is not a coincidence that the most notorious work of
forging ballots recently discovered was done by a well-known
federation of high-minded females, who were sniveling over the
"underprivileged." Kipling was not the first to remark that the female
of our species is more deadly than the male. See the Ecclesiazusae of
Aristophanes.)




I do not know how long after May 1982 the evangelical spook-salesmen
continued to agitate their hordes of mutton-heads, so I cannot
estimate how many more letters were received by the Commission after
May 1982. I hope, however, that you will ponder the incomplete record
above, and will remember it the next time you are asked to give money
"to awaken the people" and "field a winning candidate."

I have no doubt but that a slowly increasing number of Americans are
beginning to regret that they gave their country away. Had they done
the regretting fifty years ago and been sufficiently resolute then,
they probably could have recaptured the United States by legal means
in a series of local, state, and federal elections. But now they are
living in an ochlocracy (which the boobs are taught to call a
"democracy") (6) of their own making. They are helpless now and will
remain helpless for a long time. Optimists like Harold Covington, as
he, a Xenophon writing before the fact, explains in his Anabasis (7),
believe that their chance will come eventually and before they have
been liquidated and their surviving progeny absorbed in a mass of
moronic mongrels. I shall not presume to predict.




(6. In a true democracy -- rule by the demos -- the franchise
would always have been strictly limited to members of the Aryan race
and should have been further limited by property-qualifications (as
the framers of the Constitution intended) and provisions for admitting
to citizenship metics of the right race only after verification of
their compatibility with the Americans then controlling the country.)

(7. The March Up Country, Liberty Bell Publications, 1987; $6.00 +
postage. It should be remembered that the author of this incisive
commentary on what is now politically feasible, is a man who has had
very extensive experience in the actual work of organizing resistance
to the occupation. Crede experto.)

[Dr. Oliver later changed his view of Harold Covington, after a
series of unfounded attacks by Covington on several racialist leaders.
In letters to me in 1992 and 1993, Dr. Oliver stated:

"One of Covington's former associates in Rhodesia wrote him, a
month or so ago, a letter advising him to write fiction, for which he
has some talent, as fiction. He says that Covington is an alcoholic
and even in Rhodesia was given to wild ideas when the spirit moved
him. (The spiritus frumenti, of course).

"If my palsied memory serves me, Covington's feud with Ben
Klassen began after he returned to this country from England and
perhaps after he wrote a rather good book to prove the futility of
patriotic organizations. He founded one of the "Confederate Army" type
of organizations, using the usual Jesus-bait, and some of his recruits
became atheists and deserted to join the Church of the Creator.

"Now for another matter. I enclose a photocopy of my
typescript of a "Postscript" that is in type by this time, but of
which I have not received proofs, so there is still time to make
alterations. I intend it to be, quite indirectly, a kind of rejection
of Covington's obloquies....

"Covington is evidently trying to avenge his own failures. I
would suppose that no one would pay attention to such garbage, did I
not remember how applicable is the Mediaeval aphorism, Quam parva
sapientia mundus regitur! (The persons who used the phrase did not
know enough Latin to realize that what they were saying was that their
god was a fool! They used mundus in the sense of French le monde,
i.e., human society.)...

"Covington will do some damage, for he is rather clever, as
shown by the material with which he surrounded his attack on the
Alliance in this latest issue of his sheet, and there is no way to
stop him. He will eventually hang himself....

"I shall try to refute Covington's allegations without
mentioning his name but in a way that will suffice for any reader of
Liberty Bell who may have received his slop. I can assure you that Mr.
Dietz has no wish to see the National Alliance undermined, and would
certainly publish nothing that tended in that direction."



Since that time, Dr. Oliver's predictions have come true. One
patriot defamed by Covington, Will Williams, obtained a $110,000
judgment for damages against him after Covington falsely alleged,
among other things, that Williams was "John Doe Number Two," a
putative co-conspirator with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City
Bombing. Covington fled the state of North Carolina to avoid payment,
and now publishes forgeries and defamatory material from Texas. -- K.
A. S.]





Mrs. O'Hair believes that the amazing outbreak of Christian
fanaticism, engineered by howling dervishes, many of whom may be too
stupid or greedy to glimpse the ultimate purpose for which they are
being used, is part of a concerted drive to incite a New Dark Ages
(8), permanently to establish a fanatically fantastic religion,
destroy rationality in the minority capable of coherent thought, and
thus to impose the total slavery of all mankind predicted by George
Orwell in his 1984. This is a question to which I shall return later.




(8. Needless to say, the coming age will have nothing to do with
the New Middle Ages romantically envisaged and predicted by Ralph
Adams Cram in his well-known book of that title, nor yet with the
Nouveau Moyen-Age of Berdyaev's alembicated mysticism.)"